Jason Holler - Vocals,
Nate Jones- Guitar,
David Wiatrolik - Guitar,
Mr. Cool- Bass,
Handsome James Baker- Drums
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fallin' in love, fallin' out of love, Murder City Devils, leavin', comin' back, leavin' again, the Bloody Hollies, liquor, women, Jordan Catalano's band, mistakes, women, explicit things, pretty things, shiny things...
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2009 RFT Winner
"Best Album (self-released)"
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"KKF exhumes the shriveled-up corpse of ‘70s
punk, cuts it open, and stuffs it full of swaggering
rockabilly rhythm. For good measure, it throws
in a touch of honky tonk. The lyrics skim through
the vulgar lives of shady men driving to places
they shouldn’t go, hanging out with the wrong
women, drinking too much, and then going back
and doing it all again. All that and a killer piano
solo."----–MP Johnson of Razorcake
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"On its first full-length, the Edwardsville quintet
Kentucky Knife Fight serves up a platter of greasy,
blues-derived rock and booze-drenched alt-country.
The music is perfectly tailored for a night at the
tavern, and singer Jason Holler turns the songs
into sermons of the damned, where the only
salvation comes from the vices that bring us low."
----------------River Front Times Best Local
Releases of '08
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"5th best album of 2008"
------KDHX DJ Pat Wolfe
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"A decade ago the finer indie rock
sounds were coming from the East Side as it
seemed that the water in Illinois was better for
crafting tasty guitar rock. While there have been
fine bands in the interim something seems to be
happening again on the other side of the Mississippi
River and we predict that Kentucky Knife Fight will
be the leaders of the new generation. A five piece
from Edwardsville, IL, Kentucky Knife Fight have
just released their debut CD, 'The Wolf Crept, The
Children Slept' which is an amazing collection of
rock songs that pull from influences such as the
Stooges and Bob Dylan while never sounding like
a throwback outfit." -----Vintage Vinyl.com
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"Imagine the Replacements suffering through
sweltering Midwestern summer nights instead of
cold Minnesota winters, and infused with a little
less punk and a little more dirty twang, and you
have Edwardsville's Kentucky Knife Fight. The
band's debut EP (recorded live at the Stagger
Inn) shows a lot of promise both in songwriting
skills and live chops. The Wolf Crept, The Children
Slept more than delivers on that promise: It's one
of those records where everything just feels right,
from the old-timey woodcut on the front cover
(done by Matty Kleinberg of the Firecracker Press)
to the sequencing of the songs. There is little fat
but plenty of gristle, as "Lil' Sister" kicks off the
disc with a dose of swaggering scuzz-rock that is
as creepy as it is infectious. Not since Dylan's
"Oh Sister" has incest sounded so good.
If you had to assign Kentucky Knife Fight a spot in
the music-genre ghetto, alt-country would be its
best fit. But while much of alt-country coasts on
late-night confessions and early-morning regret,
there is no such earnestness here. Singer Jason
Holler's characters have no time for remorse and
no use for sentimentality. The ramblin' man in
"Herschel Walker" appreciates the gentle but
fleeting mercies of a good woman before before
hitting the road, telling her that he "can't make a
living off of what you say." There's also a certain
respect paid to outlaw country, as well over half
of the thirteen tracks collected hear sound like
they are straining to become the next "Radar
Love." (That's not an insult.) Some instrumental
nuances help round out the album; a barroom
piano guides the sing-along "I Don't Mind," and
the wheezy clarinet in "Got My Heaven" is equal
parts Dixieland-swing and klezmer-stomp. It falls
to Holler to sell the songs and take them from
potential cliché into bleary-eyed oblivion. He
succeeds with the aid of his bandmates, who draw
from barroom blues, rural folk and hair metal and
turn it into something sweaty and alive."
----Christian Schaeffer, Riverfront Times, published
Oct. 21st, 2008
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"Singer Jason Holler lives up to his name with equal
parts carnival barking and distressed soul exhorting.
Guitarists Nate Jones and David Wiatrolik trade
reverbed riffs and crunchy, short-circuited chords
while the rhythm section holds it down with a little
swing and a lot of rockabilly swagger. The tunes
collected on Live don't stray much from the
garage-rock formula: There are drivin' songs,
cheatin' songs, and leavin' songs — all of which,
when played in a bar, translate into drinkin' songs."
---- Christian Schaeffer, Riverfront Times, published
Feb. 14th, 2008
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"The highlight of the album is 'Herschel Walker'.
A lyrically heavy song, Jason Holler, the vocalist,
does the track great credit with his twang. If anything,
Kentucky Knife Fight is a good lesson teaching us that
everything from the south doesn't have to be bluegrass
or country pop. Their style is refreshing among myriad
of local pop-punk bands."
----Beth Ochoa, Cadenza, published Jan. 28th, 2008
OUR FIRST LP "THE WOLF CREPT, THE CHILDREN SLEPT" OUT NOW!
AVAILABLE AT ALL SLACKERS LOCATIONS, VINTAGE VINYL OR THROUGH ANY MEMBER OF THE BAND.
OUT ON ITUNES, AMAZON AND CD BABY NOW!
CD artwork by Matty Kleinberg of Firecracker Press.
Kentucky Knife Fight is a hardworking, modest 5 piece hailing from Edwardsville, Illinois that combines the influences of early 1970’s proto-punk and punk rock groups such as The Stooges, MC5, and Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers with the garage rock of late 90’s and early 2000 bands such as The Murder City Devils and King Kahn. The sounds of early Van Morrison and dirty blues rock work their way in to the fold, as does a sometimes subtle, and at other times, not so subtle twang of blue grass.
The Story goes like this: One day, an interdepartmental love affair between the SIUE school of Art, the Music Department, and the School of Education led to the conception of a 4 man dirty rock group. Nate Jones, Jason Holler, James Baker and Jason Koenig had either shared beers, classes or conversations prior, and after a few songwriting sessions and a few more parties, they decided to harness their collective creativity.
Originally starting off as a folk/rockabilly hybrid, the group underwent a dramatic and loud change over a small amount of practices, and was born as a bluesy garage rock outfit on the stage of Stagger Inn during an open mic night. Armed with only 3 songs and 15 watt practice amps, the small, not quite appropriately dressed band slayed the crowd, and the name "Kentucky Knife Fight" quickly circulated amongst the college town dwellers. Months later, the band added a close friend, David Wiatrolik, to the fold as a second guitarist.
The combination of Holler's background in poetry, Baker's and Jones's intuitive self-taught musicianship, and Wiatrolik and Koenig's strict and finely crafted Jazz leanings have led to songs that show great maturity since that first Open mic night years ago. Even the songs written for their debut LP "The Wolf Crept, The Children Slept" , which has gained critical praise in midwestern circles, have been surpassed by newer and as yet unrecorded material. The twang is twangier, the dirt is dirtier, the shifts more dynamic, the bluegrass, blues and punk influences more integrated, leaving their respective genres to become something else entirely.
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you guys playin the blues fest this weekend? i am hopin so because i will be there dancing and drinking....my 2 favorite vices! i didn't check the lineup and was hoping to see you guys live again
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